Hey, I feel totally intimidated by Woodys estate. Mine is far more modest. But will do it. My young niece is always taking photos so I'll get her artistic eye to make my garden more appealing.

My garden is of reasonable size but a friend has almost 6 acres and I often get involved in that too. Different sort of garden......cultivated morphing into more natural planting. Scope for growing trees that I cannot grow here.

Would love to start again with huge garden and blank canvass

Currently watching my agastache Blue Boa opening it's buds. Any day. New for me so hoping for something really good......have several agastaches and 3 or 4 are new but I love them all so far

Vedun is blue boa the "hardy" agastache that just came out? Have you planted it out or keeping it contained to help overwinter? I really like the look of it, but always begrudge paying good money for plants with "iffy" hardyness.

Hiya Andy....yes that's the one. Well, it's mild here but you can dig them up at summer's end and pot them up. The Blue Boa is tantalisingly close to opening but it really looks so good in bud too. I managed to get it in a 3 litre container too. I always try to split or take a part of agastaches during the growing season to pot up for another plant next year

Its twue Fairygirl...I am easily fwitened. Don't have that iris but it sounds fantastic. And waiting for the first flowers is exciting I think

This is the first year I have grown them. I planted all the bulbs in a container of multi-purpose compost around March or April time (which I had used last year for growing Nigella in) and up they came!

I think every single bulb has popped up and they are all starting to throw up flowers

I'll see if I can get a better photo tomorrow rusflorum. The flowers are very like a tiny penstemon but I'm not good at close ups. Whoever took your pic is better and I can see it's not that. Does that make sense

Verd the buds are just starting to show colour on Black Dragon and they do look really black. I bought another Night Owl, really deep purple which I love, and they are at the same stage as BD but definitely lighter so I'm looking forward to seeing it when it opens properly.

Thank you Verdi. That Iris is actually just tucked in behind the Ligularia just now as it's still in it's little plastic pot so it gets a bit of support in case it's windy. Molly Sanderson was getting a bit limp, despite a bit of shade from the bigger pots, because it's been so hot but it'll appreciate the cooler temp today. Believe it or not that pot the Ligularia's in isn't terracotta - it's a resin one. Realistic isn't it? Still quite heavy. Wasn't dear- I got 3 of them for £30 at B&Q with the 3 for 2 offer if you have their discount card.